ATTICA. Athens. 2nd-1st centuries BC. AR tetradrachm (30mm, 16.94 gm, 11h). NGC AU 5/5 - 5/5. New Style coinage, ca. 137/6 BC, Mikion and Theophrastos, magistrates. Head of Athena right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with a vine scroll, Pegasus above upturned cheek flap decorated with Pegasus right, protomes of four horses above visor / A-ΘE / MI/KI-ΘEO/ΦPA (magistrates), owl standing facing on overturned amphora decorated with Θ (month); Nike driving fast quadriga right in right field, ΣΩ (engraver) below, all within olive wreath. Thompson 316. HGC 4, 1602.

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